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Household Consumer Expenditure, July 2004 - June 2005
NSS 61st Round

India, 2004 - 2005
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Reference ID
DDI-IND-MOSPI-NSSO-61Rnd-Sch1-July2004-June2005
Producer(s)
National Sample Survey Office
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Household Consumption Expenditure
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Household Size (B3_q1)

Data file: Block 3 Part 1_Household Characteristics

Overview

Valid: 124644
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 1.0
Maximum: 43.0
Mean: 4.8918199030839835
Standard deviation: 2.522365000817507
Type: Discrete
Width: 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
How many members are there in the household?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 7518
6%
2 11054
8.9%
3 15730
12.6%
4 25562
20.5%
5 23583
18.9%
6 16645
13.4%
7 9916
8%
8 5676
4.6%
9 3236
2.6%
10 2047
1.6%
11 1180
0.9%
12 859
0.7%
13 498
0.4%
14 342
0.3%
15 244
0.2%
16 156
0.1%
17 136
0.1%
18 85
0.1%
19 45
0%
20 28
0%
21 25
0%
22 18
0%
23 15
0%
24 8
0%
25 9
0%
26 11
0%
27 7
0%
28 2
0%
30 3
0%
31 2
0%
32 1
0%
34 1
0%
35 1
0%
43 1
0%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
The size of the sample household i.e., the total number of persons normally residing together (i.e., under the same roof) and taking food from the same kitchen (including temporary stay-aways and excluding temporary visitors) will be recorded against this item. This number will be same as the last serial number recorded in column 1 of block 4.

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Definition
A group of persons normally living together and taking food from a common kitchen constitutes a household. The word "normally" means that temporary visitors are excluded but temporary stay-aways are included. Thus a son or daughter residing in a hostel for studies is excluded from the household of his/her parents, but a resident employee or resident domestic servant or paying guest (but not just a tenant in the house) is included in the employer/host's household. "Living together" is usually given more importance than "sharing food from a common kitchen" in drawing the boundaries of a household in case the two criteria are in conflict; however, in the special case of a person taking food with his family but sleeping elsewhere (say in a shop or a different house) due to space shortage, the household formed by such a person's family members is taken to include the person also. Each inmate of a mess, hotel, boarding and lodging house, hostel, etc. is considered as a single-member household except that a family living in a hotel (say) is considered as one household only; the same applies to residential staff of such establishments.
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